Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside, one dissenting voice was raised in protest. Armed with a telegram of encouragement from Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, Editor Norman Cousins, of the Saturday Review of Literature, spoke over boos and catcalls. To his fellow delegates he said: "I ask you to believe that the American people . . . are not speaking out against the idea of peace . . . They are speaking out against a small political group in this country which has failed to live up to the rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian...
...Burmans. The first Karen convert was Ko Tha Byu, a Karen bandit bought out of slavery by Dr. Adoniram Judson, a Baptist missionary from Maiden, Mass, who had arrived in Burma in 1813. Ko Tha Byu learned to read the Scriptures, was baptized, and set out to convert his fellow tribesmen. Karens, who had a myth that one day their "lost white brother" would return over the great waters with a "lost book," made willing listeners. When bands of Karens began to arrive in Rangoon to be baptized, the Burmans threw them into prison. One convert, Ko Shwe Waing...
Students interested in the exalted art of aerial gliding will get a chance to meet fellow-enthusiasts next Saturday at a meeting of all Boston glider fans at the Puritan Hotel...
Though beneficial to Gardella and his fellow expatriates (ex-Cardinals Lanier and Martin), a change in the contract terms would turn salary negotiations into a dogfight between players and owners which could hurt the sport immeasurably. If players went to the highest bidders, the rich owners like Tom Yawkey would soon corral all the talent. In post-war major league baseball, there is comparatively little injustice in salaries; everywhere except in St. Louis and Brooklyn, public acclaim keeps the paychecks high. The clause looks like slavery; in the minor leagues, it often is. But the experience of the past thirty...
...local committee of the Council of Arts, Sciences, and Professions, which Harvard Observatory Director Harlow Shapley heads, had planned a meeting at Yale tomorrow night to be addressed by the Soviet composer and fellow delegates to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace...